Articles tagged: screw ups

We all know Dick Vitale has a tendency to get overexcited about stuff, and we were reminded of that when he made an embarrassing mistake on Twitter Saturday. All Dickie V. wanted to do was share a photo of himself meeting with two fans at a First Watch restaurant in Florida. Everything went fine when…Read More

FOX Sports Tennessee had some serious “technical difficulties” during the broadcast of the Nashville Predators’ game against the St. Louis Blues on Thursday night. As Jim Diamond of Rinkside Report first noted on Twitter, fans who were watching the game may have heard some unusual sounds. Unless, of course, you don’t consider the sound of…Read More

A surprisingly successful season continued for the New York Islanders on Monday night as they came away with an overtime victory over the Washington Capitals. We’ll talk more about that after we discuss the painfully awkward exchange that took place between MSG Networks reporter Shannon Hogan and a player. Hogan caught up with Islanders center…Read More

I will be the first to admit that I used to mix up the Harbaugh brothers all the time. When Jim first took the head coaching job with the San Francisco 49ers, I accidentally referred to him as John more than once. But I never mixed up their faces. The same cannot be said for…Read More

ESPN did the impossible on Thursday night: they got both the USC and UCLA fan bases to unite over a common issue. During the USC-Cal game, ESPN displayed a graphic that accidentally called USC the “UCLA Trojans.” We’ve never seen an error quite as egregious. Was that a prank? It had to have been. How…Read More

The legendary Gus Johnson made a hilarious mistake while doing the play-by-play for the TCU-Kansas State game on Saturday night, and it wasn’t even caused by overexcitement. Johnson, who is known for his enthusiastic calls, accidentally confused Ron Burgandy of “Anchorman” with Ron Jeremy, the porn star. The flub happened when Fox showed this fan’s…Read More

Peyton Manning on Sunday night surpassed Brett Favre as the NFL leader for most touchdown passes in a career. Manning broke the record with his 509th touchdown pass and later threw his 510th, but one news station decided to give credit to a different Peyton — or, should we say, Payton. When discussing Manning’s milestone,…Read More

It was a long night in Kansas City where the Royals outlasted the A’s 9-8 in 12 innings on Tuesday night to win the first wild-card game of the 2014 MLB playoffs. The game was so long and featured so many comebacks by the Royals that it forced writers to constantly rework their game stories….Read More